18-The Moon – Reversed Golden Deck

Your Chosen Card – The Moon Reversed Golden Deck

When reversed, the Moon can indicate that you are about to emerge from a period of confusion or uncertainty. Many readers regard the inverted Moon card as posing milder problems than the card upright. Sometimes the reversed Moon appears when a female querent is facing gynecological difficulties.

Keywords Reversed: Confusion, deception, error, disillusionment, lack of clarity, unreality, nebulous thinking, apprehension, fearing the worst, misunderstanding, darkness, loneliness, bad dreams, depression, insecurity, hidden enemies, ambiguity, instability, intoxication, substance abuse, the dark side, fluctuating circumstances, failure to keep promises, concerns about women’s health; things that go bump in the night.

Key XVIII: The Moon
Myths/Archetypes: The Moon Goddess. Hecate, gatekeeper between the worlds and the Queen of the Night. Diana, goddess of the moon, birthing, and the hunt.
Dates of Pisces: 18 February–19 March (tropical); 14 March–13 April (sidereal)
Astrology: Pisces, the Fishes (a Water sign ruled by Jupiter and Neptune)
Numerology: 9 (The Hermit) = 1 + 8 (The Moon)

Mathers: Twilight, deception, error; (R) fluctuation, slight deceptions, trifling mistakes.

When The Moon is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If The Moon is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Moon is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your reversed card reading for The Moon using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.


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Complete Book of Tarot: Much of the imagery of early tarot decks derives from the influence of the Roman Catholic Church on the culture of the time. Daily life was structured around religious feasts and the pantheon of Catholic saints, each of whom had a special day on the calendar. Because the common people could not read and write, the Church relied on images, allegories, and the spoken word to guide the faithful toward salvation. Together with the images of Greek and Roman mythology, these Christian allegories made their way onto the trump cards of the tarot.

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Portable Magic: Do not feel that because the Golden Dawn system of magic uses only seven planets rather than ten that it is somehow inferior, or incomplete. If you look at the diagram of the solar and lunar sects, you will observe that there are no gaps. Traditional astrology is a complete and perfect system. It was used with confidence from the times of the ancient Egyptians and Greeks down to the discovery of the planet Uranus by William Herschel in 1781. The finding of the first outer planet must have been an unsettling event in the world of astrology. With the subsequent discovery of Neptune in 1846 and Pluto in 1930, modern astrologers felt the increasing need to modify astrology to accommodate the outer planets. In my own view, this

Portable Magic: The sect into which the trump of a lesser planet is placed depends on whether it is desirable that its overall influence be solar or lunar. In general, if you wish its action to be overt, direct, or expansive, place the modifier in the solar sect; if you want its action to be more subtle, reflective, or restrictive, use the lunar sect.

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Portable Magic: The sect into which the trump of a lesser planet is placed depends on whether it is desirable that its overall influence be solar or lunar. In general, if you wish its action to be overt, direct, or expansive, place the modifier in the solar sect; if you want its action to be more subtle, reflective, or restrictive, use the lunar sect.